Re: bowling for cars

In alt.sysadmin.recovery on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:34:51 +0000 (UTC)
Garrett Wollman <wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <slrnerv95n.das.zebeej@xxxxxxxxx>,
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What exactly do you think is gained by *all* vehicles having lights on
in normal daylight conditions?

Surely this has been gone into so many times before: It's so that you
can see them when they are coming out of a deep shadow into bright
sunlight. Surely you have shadows in Oz? (Or is it topography that
you lack?)

Sure we do. I can't think of any in urban areas so black and massive
that I can't see a vehicle in them in normal daylight. You have such
things all over the place? What casts them? And how often is there
such a massively dark black shadow? I haven't seen them in any
tall-building-infested city in Oz, and certainly not in any suburban
area.

Dusk or dawn, certainly. Which is, you will notice, when people
start putting lights on.

BUt not in urban daylight. And if you want very bright daylight and
thus strong contrast then I reckon we have a fair bit of that.

Meanwhile in the urban areas, you have a river of lights making
distinguishing individuals and working out speed and distance difficult.
It's difficult at night which is why inexperienced drivers have a higher
cross-flow crash rate at night. No need to add that complication in
the daytime.


So the possibly advantage of seeing something in a situation that
almost never occurs outweighs this how?

Zebee
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